On Jul 5, 2010, at 11:01 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > Four is right. The largest PATA drives easily found are 500GB, haven't > seen 750/1TB. > Not tough to add a SATA card to the PCI slot and get 2 or 4 SATA > drives in there. SATAs are coming down in price, no sooner did I get 2 > 1.5TB drives for $90 ea than they're selling the 2TB models for $100. > 3TB will hold me for now. > > On Jul 5, 9:34 am, Linda <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jul 3, 2010, at 11:57 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >>> The Time machine volume should be a separate HDD apart from your >>> main drive. It sounds like maybe you have the Time machine on your >>> working drive? >> >> no, its on a separate drive. I occasionally throw some files on the >> second drive. I had planned to use it to make videos as it is larger >> than my original HD which is only 80G. >> >> maybe I need to add another HD? How many can you put in a MDD? >> >> Linda in Ohio
Just a note: if you boot 9 and have 500 drives in the MDD you must partition one with I believe a 180 partition or smaller to boot OS 9. also a special ROM is needed to boot OS 9 on a MDD.:-) John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
